Defined by Beavers as part of the Beavers-Timberlawn Model, a family system dynamic in which members are expelled or encouraged to operate at the outer periphery and seek gratification outside the family
tending to move away from a center; "centrifugal force" conveying information to the muscles from the CNS; "motor nerves" tending away from centralization, as of authority; "the division of Europe into warring blocs produces ever-increasing centrifugal stress
Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster. (b) Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos